Marshall Fine's off base attack on Comic Con proves he's 20 years behind

Frankly, I've never heard of Marshall Fine and he's probably never heard of me. Now, as of this writing, we've heard of each other. He's not going to forget me after this, because I'm blogging specifically to attack his off-base take on Comic Con in The Huffington Post.

Marshall Fine is 20 years behind the times. 20 years ago movie studios could largely afford to ignore comic books as material for movies. But over that time, something funny happened: it seemed Hollywood got remake and sequel happy and, having redone everything from King Kong to Friday The 13th, realized there was this new thing called digital media and people were playing with comic book-style characters on video games.

Hmmm...

Then Hollywood listened to Marvel Comics' claim that they actually had good human characters that people would pay money to see in movie form with a good story.

And you know what? Spider-Man proved Marvel Comics right. The first installment was just plain good, and with all of that, the first Iron Man movie was even better, and considered by many to be Oscar Best Picture material for a time in 2009.

To write a blog that asserts comic book movies are in some way low-brow is, in itself low-brow. To dismiss geeks and nerds and Comic Con itself as something weird and undesirable, as Fine does, rather than guys who get laid and are creative and girls who are sexy and are creative, and a convention of the new and exciting, is just a plainly laughable expression of jealously.

Geeks and Nerds rule at the center of an ever-increasing tech pop culture. Comic Con is Mecca. Hollywood knows it.  Marshall Fine, should know it too.

Come on, Rip Van Winkle. Wake up.